To find a mare's nest. - To put a spoke in somebody's wheel.
- To find a mare's nest.
- To find the fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
- To fish in troubled waters.
- To fit like a glove.
- To flog a dead horse.
- To get out of bed on the wrong side.
- To give a lark to catch a kite.
- To go for wool and come home shorn.
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin).
- To have a finger in the pie.
- To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.
- To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.
- To have rats in the attic.
- To his dog every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
- To hit the nail on the head.
- To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- To kick against the pricks.
- To kill two birds with one stone.
- To know everything is to know nothing.
- To know on which side one's bread is buttered.
- To know what's what.
- To lay by for a rainy day.
- To live from hand to mouth.
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen.
- To look for a needle in a haystack.
- To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy.
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water.
- To make (to turn) the air blue.
- to make a long story short
- To make a mountain out of a molehill.
- To make both ends meet.
- To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
- To make the cup run over.
- To measure another man's foot by one's own last.
- To measure other people's corn by one's own bushel.
- To pay one back in one's own coin.
- To plough the sand.
- To pour water into a sieve.
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.
- To pull the devil by the tail.
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